I kind of figured that out. But all the extra stuff that I'm doing to it is just a wrench turn away from being removed, as the underlying base bike itself does not need to be altered at all to add these parts. I could imagine, back in the day, you could have probably walk into the parts and service department at a Sears store, and order these extra parts for your kid's bike, and bolt them on if you wanted to, but as you say, it would have been much easier to buy a deluxe chrome one, and get it all from the get go.
You are right. It looks nice, and that is what I'm after.
Oh, by the way, this bike had the original Allstate safety tread whitewall tires, which I have removed but saved, had a Goodyear triple circle date code showing the first quarter of 1964, as I have the bicycle tire date code deciphering sheet that explains how to date your old tires, so that is probably when this bike was made. Not in 1966. I checked and double checked this with several outside sources, and they all confirm this date.
Jim.